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A California grand jury has indicted a Florida man on charges he strangled his former wife while on a cruise and tossed her overboard, the Orange County Register reports.

The Register says Lonnie Loren Kocontes, 55, is accused of murdering his ex-wife for financial gain while sailing on the 1,606-passenger Island Escape off the coast of Italy in 2006. He was arrainged on Monday in a California superior court but did not enter a plea, the news outlet says.

The Register, citing prosecutors, says Kocontes ex-wife, Micki Kanesaki, was last seen alive on the ship on May 25, 2006, after she and Kocontes spent the day in the port town of Messina, Italy. Kocontes reported her missing on May 27, the same day her body was found off the coast of Paola, Italy, the news outlet says.

The couple had divorced in 2001 but continued to live together off-and-on, the Register says.